Going Out of Town? Visit a Bookstore! | Tokyo
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This video is sponsored by UNDERTOW by Michael Buckley: http://ow.ly/MOtIQ One of my favorite things to do when traveling is visiting local bookstores. Books Mentioned The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett The Round House by Louise Erdrich Where You Can Find Us: http://Bookriot.com http://bookriotlive.com (NYC event coming in November 2015!) http://store.bookriot.com (store!) Social Media: http://twitter.com/bookriot http://facebook.com/BookRiot http://instagram.com/bookriot http://bookriot.tumblr.com/
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I'm off to Portland for the holiday and I cannot WAIT to get to Powells!!!
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I would have gone to more bookstores than just Politics and Prose when I was in DC last year but I had the parental units in tow and (even though they like to read) they aren't quite as rabid book people as I am. I had already dragged them around the Stephansplatz in Vienna in 2007 looking for a bookshop that actually sold GERMAN/AUSTRIAN BOOKS (bc whatever chain they have there had shelves almost identical to the bestseller lists in the US) and I finally found a hole-in-the-wall secondhand shop. Should have done more research
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So glad to watch your video because this is something I do every time I go out of town! Savannah, Georgia has an independent bookstore called The Book Lady and I can spend HOURS there! Love it!
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I love going to bookstores when I'm traveling somewhere new, or especially when I'm traveling to places I've gone before. Every summer my family and I take a vacation in Downeast Maine and we always hit up a set of bookstores. It's nice to look back on the books that I buy in different places, because I can always remember where and when I bought them.
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Finding new bookshops is one of my favorite things to do when I'm on the road. I usually just use Google but sometime people I work with have good suggestions. I typically go for used bookshops. Nothing against new stores, used shops just usually have the type of personality that I respond to more.
“The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
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I don't go out of town often but I always hit book stores when I can.
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My partner and I do this whenever we're on vacation. We went to San Diego over Spring Break and ended up going to an indie and three comic book stores. We've even got a letter in to Dear Book Nerd about cool indies (besides Powells) to visit on our honeymoon this year.
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I don't do it every time I go out of town but sometimes I'm in the mood to find one. I usually don't buy anything because I know I can get the book I found at home or the library. I like looking though.
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Not only I completely agree with that philosophy, but also I am planning a trip at this very moment, with that specific premise! I'm going next week to the largest city in the country, particularly known for its cultural life! And for the last couple of days, I have been searching the web and almost diving into google maps to come up with good ideas for bookstores, used book shops, libraries, local neighborhood tiny cute bookstores, large bookstores, famous bookstores, sites where my favourite book passages took place and many other book-related places to visit! I have been calling this project "literary tourism" and I think it's going to be an awesome trip! Your video could not have been posted ate a better time!!! =D
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Totally do that. Every single time I go out of town.